out of the murky mud of life
grows the purely beautiful
lotus flower,
trusting
in its own
unfolding.
Having a clean home, a warm bed, and a sense of security is truly the biggest blessing. That is enough to be content especially in the world we live in today. We are rich is ways we don’t realize.
Paavo Haavikko, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry; “The Short Year”
X-ray flowers by Robert Coop | Coopr on DeviantArt
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Many of you are lacking the whimsy , the ability to see beauty in the mundane , the childlike innocence that keeps us truly living.
“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”
— Ijeoma Umebinyuo
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